Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Walter William Nobbs

From Graces Guide

Walter William Nobbs (1881-1951), M.I.Mech.E., M.I.H.V.E., M.A.S.H.V.E. Consulting Engineer, heating and ventilating engineer.

1881 Born, son of a civil engineer

Apprentice Purcell and Nobbs, Elect., Heating and Mech. Engrs., London.

Consulting engineer for many London buildings, including New County Hall for the London County Council, the new premises for the RIBA and the headquarters of the Institution of Electrical Engineers at Savoy Hill.

1910 Married Francoise Leonie Thebault

1911 Living at 71 Haverstock Hill, London: Walter William Nobbs (age 29 born St. Pancras), Warming and Ventilating Engineer. With his wife.[1]

1914 Birth of daughter Madeleine Nobbs

1920 President of the Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers

1939 Consulting engineer, of 26 Victoria Street, London, S.W.1.


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Sources of Information

  1. 1911 Census